you can’t win.For Cain Kent, that rule is golden. Losing is not in his vocabulary, and up until
now, everything has come easy. Football, school, girls … his charm-laced ego
may just be bigger than Texas itself.The competition he started freshman year with his friends, to make ten notches
each in their bedposts by graduation day, is practically in the bag. One more
to go, and then it’s off to college fame and eventually, the big time.
Attachments aren’t something he wants to form, but when the quiet new girl
challenges him in front of his classmates, his curiosity is peaked. She would
be the perfect final score, and what fun to break her in the process.Too bad Harper Posy has no intention of being just another warm body,
especially to the bad boy quarterback. Even if he does quote Forster and Huxley
when no one is listening. An aspiring author herself, Cain and his hidden soft
side are dangerous to her heart. She’s seen men ruin her mother’s dreams time
and again, and she’s determined to fly far away as soon as she has that diploma
in her fist.
But as the school year’s end looms closer, both realize they didn’t quite
understand the rules to begin with. Is winning a dirty bet worth the gamble
when the stakes, or the other’s heart in this case, are so high?
Harper is the one girl who isn’t up for playing games. And she just might make
Cain lose. Everything.
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“Life is about mistakes. It’s how we correct them that matters.”
This book can be pretty much summed up by that quote.
The Tenth Girl has the plot of books and movies that I have read before. But it’s the characters and the writing that makes me really enjoy this story and Carrie’s take on the idea of “boy makes stupid bet, falls in love and possibly loses girl.”
Cain is the star quarterback in his senior year, prepping to go to the most best college he can for football. Harper is the new girl at school after she and her mom move back to Texas for her senior of high school. Harper becomes Cain’s next target, but what ensues is nothing either expected.
I love that Harper maybe innocent in some aspects, she has a good head on her shoulders and doesn’t always fall right into the “stupid girl” daze. Cain has his douchebag moments, but I like that Carrie paints him a different light than most books too. He has the jock vibe, but he’s not a complete dick either.
“I am what you designed me to be. I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt.”
Harper and Cain are fairly mature for their age with certain aspects, but sometimes do act a bit childish in their actions at times. As with all teenage love, they don’t talk things through and the need to create more drama than necessary is added in, but I think it helps add to the overall vibe of this story.
There is a lot to this story that I enjoyed reading and found entertaining because it just added more to the book. The cliché secondary characters, the parties, the nastiness coming from the school’s queen bee – I love these additions in this book – without it, the YA vibe would have been lost and felt too mature for kids still trying to figure out what the hell they are doing in life.
If you are in the mood for an easy and entertaining read – I highly recommend this one.
Carrie Aarons writes books that are just as swoon-worthy as they are sarcastic.
A former journalist, she prefers the stories she dreams up, and the yoga pant
dress code, much better.When she isn’t writing, Carrie is busy binging reality TV, having a love/hate
relationship with cardio, and trying not to burn dinner. She lives in the
suburbs of New Jersey with her husband, daughter and dog.
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